THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLE FONTE, PA, NOVEMBER 20 1902, THE RACKET. 6. R. SPIGELMYER. E. P. IRVIN The Delineator for December now ready. Especially fine No, for the Holidays. Over 300 pages, and price 15¢c. Fashion Sheets for December free. China Department is showing an immense line of new Lamps. Noth- ing like the variety 1s offered U any place in Centre county, and prices are lower than U can buy the same lamp in any city in the U. S., without exception. 13 new Dinner Sets came in last week. We buy these goods from the manufacturer, and sell 'em for less prices than any store in this “neck o' the woods.” 36 Toilet Sets are coming by fast freight. Later —Are here. Kom & C the China Depart- ment, It's fine as silk and as chock full of goods as a little red wagon, THE RACKET Correspondents’ Department Continued from page Unionville. Mrs. Claude Cook and Mrs. E. M. Greist missed roll-call in Bellefonte on last Friday. Because why? They played '"hookey,” came to our beautiful city and were dined and feted at the hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Griest, and Misses Jennie Harper dell, two of Bell girls, came )Y week and w the guests of Miss Bessie Brown while here, and now several of our young men are gloomy and despoun- dent ever since they departed. Wonder why ? Ar. Elenor y town ast W. B. Parsons Jennie, left Tuesday week's visit to friends at Keesport and other points Is. and daughter, for a couple Pitcarin, Mc- west, Miss Mabel Gerbrick, of Bellefoute, was a Sanday visitor at the home of ex. commissioner, Thomas W. Fisher--the guest of Miss Myrtle Metzler, T. E. Irvin and Sheridan, Pa., at the Stover hotel for several weeks, re. turned to their homes a few days ago taking with them about 20 rabbits and other small game, which they shot dar. ing their stay here Jobu Wolislagle shot a very fine wild turkey on Monday and declared had two good eyes, too. on Samuel of Kaup, George W. Iogram is “it.” He is first to bring in a deer from the moun tain It was a f buck and was secured mewhere in the regions the $414 red Scootac The irrepressible J from the S Saturday and oo de Clyde Stett, of Madera, is our station agent pro tem, while “Billy’’ Parsons is out ou the mountain gathering in his an nual supply of winter venison pheasants It is esumated that there are about 57 hunters camped in the Benner Run bunting grounds. Wagon loads of pro vision and camp equipage including an immense quantity of bottled goods were | shipped bere and taken to the mountain rendesvous The hunters came from Tyrone, Lewisburg, Philadelphia, Boals- | burg and other parts of the state, and if some of them don't get shot—in the | neck —it won't be for lack of an abun! dance of the right kind of ammunition Fire! FIRE :~Our town is rapidly | pushing to the front. On Monday night | about eleven o'clock, just when our 400 citizens had fallen into their first deep sleep, the cry of fire was wafted through the air, arousing them from their sweet slmmbers and soon nearly half of them were at the scene of disaster, The store house of Mrs. E. J. Bathurst | caught fire from some unaccountable cause and was totally consumed together | with all its contents, consisting of gro ceries, notions and confectionary, also the cream parlor furniture all of which (was comparatively new. The fire was discovered by Mrs. Wm. A Peters whose bed room was next to the burning store, and she at once gave the | alarm, Daniel Back and "Squire Shipley being the first to appear on the scene, Monte Musser broke the door open but | an immense volume of smoke and flame confronted them so that it was impossible | to save anythirg from the devouring ele. | ment, The building was construsted of yellow plank and lined inside with North Carolina pine and that, with about so gallon of coal oil, made an intensely hot re and required the most strenuous ef- forts of the bucket brigade to save the valuable residence of Mrs. Wm. A, Peters, which for a time it was thought was doomed. The boys worked like heroes and deserve much credit for their efforts. Chas. Griest deserves special mention for his daring and heroism in risking his life which he almost forfeited to save Mrs. Peter's house. He dofled his shoes and got on the roof pouring on | the water as it was handed to him from the ladder, but being overcome by the heat and smoke he fell heavily, striking the back of his head on the comb of the roof, and cutting a terrible gash on his { been very low, with typhoid fever, for who have been stopping | | bad? We do not approve of “slang” | to an appreciative audience | life was despaired of. know there was a fire until next morning. The long distance telephone was burned ‘ It rained just enough before the fire to prevent the sparks from setting fire to other buildings. Perry Moran, one of the ladder men, poured water on his clothing to prevent their catching fire, (Albert Hazel and Henry Comley are | mad because they missed the fire, John Wagner thinks he'll have a fire of his iown and invite those who missed this rone. All the pretty girls were at the fire. Charley Ingram in his haste to dress, got his bib overalls wrong side front. Mr. Leathers got there but a lit- tle late, | Oak Hall. Thursday of last week Mrs. Jas Gilli. land entertained Mrs. Jas Ross, Sr., and daughter of Linden Hall, | J. 8. Dale, of Dales Summit, agent for the Page Fence Co., was in town build- ing Page fence last week. Mrs. Daniel Lowder among the sick, | Mr. Croyle, of Juniata, was a caller in {town on Tuesday. | | Miss Lonella Ross, of Linden Hall, was | the guest of Ella and Cathryn Dale on | Saturday and Sunday. { Mrs. Sabina Houser and Daniel Zones, {of Rock Spring, were recent visitors in town. | Misses Esther Kline and Elizabeth | Bohn were to State College on Sunday. | Jas Sweetwood, of Centre Hill, is In town stripping doors. Jacob Klinger has accepted a position { with the Linden Hall Co. as night watch. | man, | Henry E. Homan, wife and son Warren, visited George Scholl and fam- ily at Houserville on Sunday. Edward Sellars and family spent Sun- | day with George Tressler's at Farmers | Mills. is numbered i i IN ADJOINING COUNTIES. Two additional cases of smallpox were reported to the Altoona board of health, Burglars robbed the safe in W. O. Rearick's office at the warehouse a few nights ago and about $19 in cash was takenat Milroy. The Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will be held at Altoona, beginning March 25, | 1903. Bishop Merrill will preside, This fall Henry Sheaffer husked off a | ten-acre field, in Centre twp., Perry county, 2,440 bushels of corn. is phenomenal, narily large. The ears are extraordi- A.G. Hill, the well known operator at Castanea, apd Miss Edith Berry, daugh. The yield | A PRETTY WORKBAG. One With Mimosa as Its Decorative nnd Color Scheme, Mimosa with its feathery leaves and downlike blossoms has been little used in embroidery, its effectiveness being | hardly known, but it Is a very easy { flower to work, as the blooms can be composed entirely of French knots of shaded yellow silk and the leaves i worked in the easy spike stitch, which long cross stitch (Bee | consists of merely a | emanating from the middle stem, {Hustration.) I am now going to show you how to make a workbag with em- | broldered mimosa and having mimosa | tints as its color scheme, | Procure two pleces of cardboard the shape shown In the design and cover | them with a Roman satin (a shade | decorated ter of Frank Berry, of Beech Creek, left | for Corning, N. Y., Monday, where they | were married, Governor Stone on Tuesday appointed | Joseph C. Brehman of Lewistown Asso. | clate Judge of Mifflin county to fill the | vacancy caused by the death of W, P, | Mendenhall. 1904. David Haller died at Castavea, Clin: He will serve until Jan. | ton county, last Saturday evening after | being ill a long time with paralysis. was 83 years old, His wife and He one | daughter, Mrs. Harry Jones, of Philips. | burg, survive, The capacity of the Lock Haven hos- pital has at last been exceeded. with patients down stairs on cots, the superintendent was compelled to send a E. K. Smith transacted | Pittsburg last week. business at par and bride. Roxie and Mary Kline were to Lemont on Saturday. Mrs. Stone and daughter Elsie, of Boalsburg, were recent visitors in town. Mrs. J. G. Etters was to State College last week. Marth... i E.E.Ardry and family, of Bellefonte, spent a few days with friends at this place and returned home Monday even- ng. Miss Medie Giugery returned to her home in Woodland ou Tuesday, after spending several weeks here with her grandparents. BR. D. Ardry and son Ellis, who have several weeks, are now convalescent, and bave discharged both purse and physician. Roy Morrison was taken to the Altoona ill { Harry Burns and wife gave a recep- | M tion on Thursday evening to John Der. | patient to the Williamsport hospital, A sad and fatal accident occurred at Hall Saturday, when John Packer, the S.vear-old son of Charles W. Packer, was instantly killed a short dis. on tance north of the old wagon bridge on West Water street, by being run over by a wagon loaded with apples. A wife of Samuel man named Pennington and the Shetram, of Portstown, Huntingdon and gone away together county, have disappeared the indications are that they have They ER . TT CHS Spiurging wildly on A are doubt. a ten dollar bill Pennington’s wife gave him to purchase stock for their little candy and cigar store. the The application to organ. Tyrone is to have a new bank in near future, ize the Farmers and Merchants’ National | the Comptroller of Currency a few days ago. Frank M. Waring, the Blair county bank, bank of Tyrone was approved by formerly cashier of 18 looking after hospital on Thursday for treatment. William Adams, wife and daughter | Martha, of Woodland, spent a few days with friends here last week, i D. I. Richards & Sons have erected a | very cozy cottage near the public high- way and will soon be ready to occupy. Mr. R. & Sons are expert carpenters, Some of our Martha-ites think it just terrible for the C. D. scribe to! write, gee.” Now, is it so very | " ex- pressions but that was a lapsus linguae and po berm was meant, but don’t | “strain at a goat and swallow a camel,” good people. The new pastor of the M. E. church, | Rev. J. V. Royer delivered his first ser- won at this place, on Sanday afternoon, ] is! J) No doubt our enterprising merchant, O Dv Eberts, contemplates taking a i junior partoer in the mercantile business | | since the arrival of that boy. (Account of fire in another column Centre Hall Mrs. Irvin Musser left (for Beaver | Falls Saturday where her husband has | secured employment, Mis. Peter Breon died at the home of ber daughter Mrs. Wm. Plory. (See obituary.) i Mis. Wm. Meyer, of Millheim, visited at the home of Dr. Lee last week, The union Thanksgiving service will | be held in the Reformed church, Centre | Hall, at 10:30 a. m. Rev. W. H. Schuy- ler will deliver the sermon. James Stahl, of near town, is seriousiy ill of hemorrage of the stomach, and his He is one of our good citizens and all hope for his re- covery. H. Clay Reesman on Monday left for JuBois where he has a job as assistant | foreman in a job printing office. Clay | was one of the few young men left in this town. Some talk of Howard Durst coming to | this place, as he will move off his father’s | farm in thé spring, and thes George Gingerich will occupy the farm, How- ard is both a scientific and practical farmer, | Gertrude Spangler, daughter of W. W, | Spangler, is now in Chicago, where she will spend the winter with her brothers. Some rumor of Sheriff Brungrat mov. ing to our town, Sober. Ezra Auman, of Millheim, spent Sun- day here, C. K. Sober was bunting and shot a nice lot of pheasants, Mrs. Uriah Auman and daughter and Mrs, Andrew Zerby returned home from i poll—but recovering himself, he slid quickly to the ladder and climbed down, and being shoeless he trod on a piece of glass and cut a big gash in his foot, He now carries his head and one foot in a sling and “locomotes’’ on crutches, look. ing very much as if he had gone through a separator. The loss of the burned store and stock is estimated to be about 1000, Insurance $800, Notes of the re: Wm. A. Peters’ house and fur. niture was damaged to the amount of $100-10 utsunte he store was under tof J. T. Glen Union and Oak Grove. David Breon and his mother, of Madi. ,sonburg, spent Sunday here, Mabel Vonada made a business trip to Coburn Friday. Susan Soavely was a guest at George Rishel’s on Sunday. George Rishel’s sale was well attend. Mrs. Michael Everett and daughters Lizzie and Hannah were Sunday callers, Calvin Breon moved to Green Briar, «A deer in the woods and a dear in town-—what a difference! Yet both are | from the Geld | two pieces, keeping one past and throw. { horses for his firm, and iv the yard i crushing it badly. hunted in season and out of season. the preliminary arrangements for the proposed institution. Ex Councilman Sidaey Clark, of Lock Haven, was Constable Myers iast week. He is charged by Clinton Castle, K. G. E., with failing "to return the funds belonging to that or. arrested by | ganization which he, as treasurer, had in | his possession. The amount is $487. There He default are three counts in the indictment. made no effort to obtain bail, in { of which be went to jail for a bearing. rich, of Lewisburg, into jail last week. Farmer George Rinehart had been missing com A broken ear of corn got Joseph Ul He broke a red ear into ing the other back on the pile. Next morning the pile was gone. He beard of Ulrich selling corn cheaply to I. M Pines, and among this corn was the dis. | carded half of the red ear. Justice Nesbit { held Ulrich for trial and sent him to jail John Riley, of the firm of Riley & i Orcutt, liverymen and dealers in horses at Clearfield, was killed in the Altoona | yard Sanday night. He had come in over the Pittsburg division with extra freight 164 which contaibed a car of left ! the cabin, and when he bad reached the : : 1" first car in some manner he fell to the tracks and the cabin ran over his head, Death was instar. taneous The postoffice at Falls Creek, Clear. field county, recently removed from its | old location, where it was robbed three | times, starts out with mo promise of a of change of luck. last Wednesday night week the office was entered and robbed of $160 in cash, a quantity of | | stamps and a number of registered letters There is no clue. The postoffice de partment have offered a reward of $200 for the arrest and conviction of the guilty parties. Arm, Head and Leg Cut Off, H. P. Spence, of near Emporium, re. cently built a saw mill. A few days ago he was on the carriage when his foot caught on a dog throwing him forward, He put out his arm to save himself and it was caught by the circular saw and severed from his body. This threw him farther off his balance and next his head was cut off, the saw throwing it over twenty feet. Then one of his limbs was mangled by the fast revolving saw. It was a most horrible sight for those who witnessed it, —— W. C. T. U. Star Course. The following is the list of entertain: ments, comprising the Star Course, to be given in Petriken Hall, under the direc. tion of the W. C, T. U. this season : Rev. Frank Dixon, lecture. ...Dec. 4 Colored Jubilee Singers..... Dec. 1g Chicago Glee Club. ...*...... Jan. 20 Patricolo Co., Concert. ...... Feb, 24 Colt Novelty Co,............. Mar, 3 Course Tickets, $i.25; single admis: With ] all beds and rooms upstairs full, and | eo BAG AND FLOWER DESIGN. lighter than the leaves) on to W have ered. yellow, satin in the fint of the Women In Journalism Not a few of tl gained not per field graduated as play have tion promi f tl se Of Th journalist which vant feWwen Hr of » ’ . 1 in Era Magazine A Cobweb Party per obwebs d invitation thus ‘Will you parlor?’ at such a time, and hour For the cob webs have macrame cord fastened about different parts of the furniture- chairs, plano legs, tables, pic ete Have sticks of pasteboard about three Inches long attached to end of the sgveral that wound taken As the b each The worded tures, or pleces each strings may be from thelr up as they are veral places d to unravel the we will have to I. guests proce escort or enter : whose string terminates place as his own the the strings Indly and gentleman who gre fortunate enough to get their string unraveled first get a prize. There may also a consolation unraveling o be a second prize; prize Sleepethe Reautifier, The subject of sleep Is one in which every woman is interested. Sleep is not only necessary and great physical comforter and restorer, but it is a beau tifler It is pretty little Mme, Butterfly whe gays, “If 1 sleep an hour, then I shall be pretty again.” The Japanese wotnen understand the arts of beauty. They know how to brighten the hair and make It shine. They undesstand the {rick of gesture and the using of the volce. And, more, they know the value of sleep. Sleep In the right amount clears the skin, brightens the eyes and glwes ox pression to the face. It takes away that haggard look, fills out the hollows around the eyes, fills out the cheeks, removes those lines about the mouth, smooths out the forehead and makes a new woman of you. fa For Ironing Days, Try making your fron holder this way If you do not want your hand to get dry and heated on ironing day: Cut from the upper part of an old boot a piece of leather the size you wish the holder to be. Cut a plece of brown pa. per and two pleces of flannel or cloth the same sige; then cover the holder In the ordinary way, except that on the top two thicknesses of material should be put instead of one. Sew all round the edge; then slit the top upper cov ering across the center and bind the edge of the slit. This forms a pocket on each side, into which one's thamb sion, 50 cents; reserved seats 15 cents. ¥ and fingers are slipped. Weather Report, Weekly report—Bellefonte Station, DATE TEMPERATURE 1902 Maximun Minimum BOV. 38. CURE... .. con miiinnanaa 44 4, clear... 15, cloudy, 18, elear...... 17, eloudy 1%, cloudy 19, cloudy Rain: On 18, “Two years ago falling out badly bottle of Ayer’ goon my! Obineh ; on 19, 00 10. SHERIFF'S BALE by virtue of a writ of Levari Faclas. issued out of the Court of « ommon Pleas of Centre Sgunty.. Fas nnd to me directed, there will be exposed to Public Sale, at the Court House mh ROT in the borough of Bellefonte, on, . NO reaso j go through life with hi: ’ I had PA 7754 starved hair. If you want long, thick i it MONDAY, DECEMBER 1st, 1002 At 1 o'clock p. m., the real estate to wit following deseribed All that certain inessuage tenement and lot | of ground situste in the borough of Bellefonte, county of Centre and State of Pe nnsylvania, pounded and described as follows to wit: Be ginning on Hign street, in line of lot formerly of Bamue! Gault, now ( assidy, thence west along sald High street 57 feet to lot formerly of Iraac Lose now J. L. Spangler, thenee along sald lot north 140 st to Pike alley, thenes east along sald alley 57 feet to sald Jot of Bamuel Gault, now Cassidy, thenee by sald lot south 140 feet to the places « f beginning, being | r, feed with Ayer’s Hair Vigor, and make it rich, dark, and heavy. $1.00 & bottle. AY drugrists u part of lot No, 45 In the plan or plot of said | } Sunnis supply ois borough of Bellefonte. Thereon erected a Ep F Ans We wis pres two story frame dwelling house, stable and , pare anc give tl Re other outbulldings i BRIZED, taken In exceuiion and to be sold as icc the property of H. H, Benner who survives Lydia Benner and H. H. Benner and Harry © laney heirs at law of Lydia Benner deceased and Robert V, Miler terre tenant, : i A CYRUS BRUNSART Bellefonte, Pa. Nov. 14. 1% l. Bhenst THE total vote for Swallow, prohibi- | tion candidate for Governor, was 23,127. OAALALLALAALA ALAA A404 004040 440 uta ddodis ado dtsatodtnddandiabo dani] A REASON! La Sh Ta i a SE SE SW WN M. C. GEPHART, 2 B. Allegheny St, BELLEFONTE. Represented by H. 6. KRAPE. A DOlidP OF TW secms to be a small item, but when we say we can save you a foll § it means a good bit to you, u purchase enough goods. A few cents saved every unts to a many dollars in the course of money on all you buy. Our guarantee to save yo h IS YOU WHO ood | there am ge We ere rs know this already. IT TRADE HERE WHO WE ARE TALKING TO reguiar stom DON] NOW Coal at $1.00 The Ton would bardly be a greater value than we are giving now in our Car- pet Department. We have not said much about this department in our ads. lately, The fact is, we have been so busy here we hardly thought it worth while to mention anything about it. Here is a partial list of some of the values we are now giv. ing Almost Sorry We Offered It for $7.50 That Monte Carlo have been advertising for the past two weeks for £7.50 has brought us many new customers. Its a Coat that we conid easily bave sold for $10.00, and if you had bought it for $10.00 you would have gotten your money's worth ; but we needed something to boom our Cloak Department and we picked on this one particular Coat We have received another ship- ment of them now, all sizes, in black and castor REMEMBER THE PRICE $7.50. we 4% 3c Half wool Ingrain, heavy, per yd. 35¢ Cotton Ingrains, per yd 25¢ ove 31.78 down to SOc All-wool Ingrains, per yd Cottage Carpet, per yd Brussels, The Luxury of a Hat is not only in the style but in the material, make and finish, Trimmed and Untrimmed Head gear Novelties embrace all the better class of ma terials now sought for—Beaver, Felt, Mohair, Plush, Kid, Velvet, Far and Silk-all shown here in the) best styles of Ready-to-wear and Dress Hats, Another Big Skirt Bargain A handsome All-wool Walking Skirt, cut in the latest flare effect ; slot seame ; kiiied ; four rows of stitching down each seam ; seven rows around bottom of skirt ; tailor made, perfect fitting. It is a pro nounced favorite ; colors grey and black. Price $4.98. Blankets & Comforts The weather will not always be as nice and mild as it is now, so repase yourself tor the cold Decem- ow nights, Wa have the best se. lected stock of Blankets and Com. forts this season we have ever had, and at prices that dely competition. Our leader is the Muncy Blan. ket, guaranteed one hundred per cent, wool, Goshen Carpet Sweepers They do your work and save your carpets. We have a nice selected line of them on exhibition in our Carpet Dep't. Priced from I $2.25 to $3.50. The Globe...Katz & Go, Ltd
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